What will the little boy find at the top of the stairs?

From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe is haunted by memories of the love of her life, whom she’ll meet again soon. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signe’s sailboat. As David and Lou discover Signe’s personal effects, her long ago journey becomes inexorably linked to their own. An evocative tale of the search for love and connection, The End of the Ocean is a profoundly moving father daughter story of survival and a clarion call for climate action. Translated from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley

The author shares the life story, achievements, experiences and his own life memories of his Swedish immigrant grandmother Maja--Marie Kallgren Wittenstrom--who emigrated to the United States from Sweden and lived through the Great Depression as a widow and single mother raising her family in Chicago, Illinois, along with the author's contemporary research into his family's Swedish ancestry.

When an accident reunites the sisters, their lives turn upside-down. Can they claw their way out of the darkness before it consumes them? After months away, Charli returns home. A piece of herself has died, and she yearns to rid the pain. Finding a joint presents a perfect solution. Unable to cope after a tragic accident, Charli masks her demons with drugs. Can she claw her way out of the darkness before her family finds out and disowns her for good? Brittany has her sister back, but is lonelier than ever. The accident snatched away the identity she spent a year building. Unable to recognise herself, how can she face school when her friends view her as an outcast? Even worse, what if it causes her boyfriend to dump her? If Brittany can’t salvage her reputation, will her anxiety cripple her into the nobody she fought so hard to kill? In The Haze is the gripping sequel to In A Mirror, and will have you emotionally wrecked. Exploring the unity and the heartbreak of sisterhood, friendship, and romance in this contemporary coming-of-age teen drama.

Do you doubt yourself? Downplay your achievements? Internalize your mistakes? If so, then this book is for you! Maja Jovanovic's mission is to make you aware of bad habits, to push you out of your comfort zone and into action, and to motivate you to dream big and aspire to leadership positions in all areas of your life.

Arguments are the order of the day with Maja's parents. The father strikes hard when something doesn't suit him. He humiliates and insults his wife and children. Maja's mother can no longer take the abuse. She leaves the family and leaves her three children with her husband. One day, she picks Maja up from school and abducts her. The mother flees with her daughter to Prague in the hope of being able to lead a better life in the West. Maja has to cope with the catastrophic conditions that prevail in the Prague embassy in September 1989. There are days when she doesn't even get enough to eat and her mother constantly leaves her alone. Her mother meets her future husband Bertram in a reception camp. Maja is severely traumatized. The man abuses the girl. The child fears that she will never see her siblings again and that the abuse will never stop. Maja's own mother ignores her cries for help. She doesn't want to hear about the abuse. Will Maja see her siblings again? Will her nightmare end or will she remain defencelessly at the mercy of her stepfather?

Out of revenge for being given away for adoption, Einstein's daughter works with the Nazis to outdo her father in physics and create an atom bomb. A death-bed confrontation between father and daughter follows in America.